chapter 4 ancient chinese civilization (c. 1500 b.c.–a.d. 589) test # 1
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Chapter 4 Ancient Chinese Civilization (c. 1500 B.C.–A.D. 589) Test # 1. Mr. C. Dennison Cardinal Hayes HS Bronx. NY. dikes. Earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods. loess. fertile yellow soil. bureaucracy. Government organized into different levels and tasks. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 4Ancient Chinese Civilization
(c. 1500 B.C.–A.D. 589)Test # 1
Mr. C. Dennison
Cardinal Hayes HS
Bronx. NY
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dikes
Earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods.
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loess
• fertile yellow soil.
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bureaucracy
Government organized into different levels and tasks.
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calligraphy
• Chinese art of writing.
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animism
• Belief that spirits inhabit everything.
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dialects
• Variations of a language.
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oracle bones
• Cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones were heated.
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Zhou • People who overthrew the Shang dynasty of China in 1122 B.C.
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Xia
• Line of kings ruling over a late Neolithic people in the Huang River region of China starting in about 2000 B.C.
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Shang
• Invaders of the Huang River valley who came to power sometime between 1750 B.C. And 1500 B.C. And established the first dynasty in China.
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autocracy
• Government in which the ruler holds absolute power.
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civil service • Centralized system that runs the day-to-day business of government
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leveling
• Policy in which government uses price controls to balance the economic effects of farm surpluses or shortages.
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Qin • Dynasty that came to power in China in 221 B.C., under which the first true empire of China was created.
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flooding• The Chinese built
dikes along the bank of the Huang to protect against ____________,
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Shang The ________ may
have cemented their power by introducing and controlling irrigation and flooding.
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Xi
• The three major rivers of China are the Huang, the Chang, and the ________.
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Mandate of Heaven.• Rebels
overthrowing a dynasty could justify their action by claiming the old dynasty had lost the ____________.
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Xia
• The rulers over the Neolithic people in China were the __________.
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invaders• The Zhou dynasty
fell because of infighting and military ________.
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